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Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by wcummings on Sunday December 25, 2016 @08:06PM (#13256334)
McDonalds isn't as bad as it used to be tbh, it's reputation is somewhat undeserved these days
Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by wtvanhest on Sunday December 25, 2016 @08:32PM (#13256412)
Would you mind elaborating a little? Last time i grabbed a cheese burger at MCD (2 months ago), the menu looked the same except for the addition of a few salads.
Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by wcummings on Sunday December 25, 2016 @08:58PM (#13256481)
The biggest change imho is not on the menu. They don't market aggressively to children anymore, nothing like when I was a kid.

There's heaps of unhealthy fast food joints, the difference is the marketing. A Chipotle burrito has over 1000 calories but is perceived as healthy. That's twice the calories in a Big Mac.

Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by lutefisk on Sunday December 25, 2016 @11:49PM (#13256972)
I don't think Chipotle is just perceived as healthier, you're eating real food rather than meat mix from McDonalds.
Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by smacktoward on Monday December 26, 2016 @12:50AM (#13257156)
Real food that's so calorically dense and heavily salted that a single burrito contains as many calories and as much sodium as a person is supposed to eat over an entire day.

Organic is good, responsibly sourced is good, but neither one automatically equals healthiness all by themselves.

Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by ianai on Monday December 26, 2016 @01:11PM (#13259132)
I'm not so worried about the calories. It's the insane amounts of salt in everything. No one even seems concerned about it.
Re:Eatsa: Quinoa-based fast food by Fnoord on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:23PM (#13330458)
> No one even seems concerned about it.

Sure people are. Not enough according to you perhaps.

Sugar (not slow carbohydrates), and salts are the two main concerns.